Failing CI tests

[udesou]

There are a few tests that still fail in the Julia CI:

• https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/1e5fdb29f8858f3244f6aff116ee12e4c8247f3a/test/misc.jl#L1338 - checks for a string that prints statistics about Julia's stock GC.
• https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/1e5fdb29f8858f3244f6aff116ee12e4c8247f3a/test/compiler/codegen.jl#L215 and https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/1e5fdb29f8858f3244f6aff116ee12e4c8247f3a/test/compiler/codegen.jl#L247 - enforce that the allocation function must be named jl_gc_pool_alloc.
• https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/1e5fdb29f8858f3244f6aff116ee12e4c8247f3a/test/dict.jl#L1053-L1055 - a bug with the finalizer reviving objects.

[qinsoon]

I am seeing the first 3 issues in #13. But I haven't seen any issue with dict.jl. Additionally, I have issues running Dates and Sockets from stdlib tests.

Dates: this seems to be an issue with their tests or runtime system: JuliaLang/julia#29466

    # Test Failed at /home/runner/work/mmtk-julia/mmtk-julia/vm/julia/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.8/Dates/test/io.jl:45
    # Expression: repr(t) == shown
    # Evaluated: "Time(0, 0, 0, 1)" == "Dates.Time(0, 0, 0, 1)"

Sockets:

    # getnameinfo(ip"0.1.1.1") == "0.1.1.1"
    # DNSError: ip"0.1.1.1", temporary failure (EAI_AGAIN)

[udesou]

The tests in dict.jl should be fixed in v1.8.2-RAI. I've seen the issue with Sockets happen depending on which machine I used. I thought Julia had a flag to disable tests that rely on internet connection or something, but I'm not sure where to find it.

[qinsoon]

The tests in dict.jl should be fixed in v1.8.2-RAI. I've seen the issue with Sockets happen depending on which machine I used. I thought Julia had a flag to disable tests that rely on internet connection or something, but I'm not sure where to find it.

    # If the `JULIA_TEST_NETWORKING_AVAILABLE` environment variable is set to `true`, we
    # always set `net_on` to `true`.
    # Otherwise, we set `net_on` to true if and only if networking is actually available.

It does not disable network related tests when JULIA_TEST_NETWORKING_AVAILABLE is false. It will check if networking is available or not. I did not try this though.